In the News

2012 “Discovery” Poetry Contest Winners

Congratulations to Mario Chard, Rebecca Hazelton, Rosalie Moffett, and Franke Varca.

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Poems

One Bird Behind One Bird

Amy King

Protective Balls

Scott Withiam

Manifesto for Tumor and Poem

Jo Ann Clark

369

Kate Greenstreet

True Figures

David Blair

Clairvoyance (Sunlight)

Melissa Kwasny

Suicide Is Painless

Michael Robbins

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Jennifer Grotz
David J. Daniels

Build a Wide Tomb for War Animals

Patricia Lockwood

Cumulus

Margot Schillp

Poem for Chris Brown After His Arrest and Poem for Rihanna After Chris Brown’s Arrest

Greg Weiss

A. in May

Kathleen Ossip

Dear Day,

Catherine Pierce

Boat

Spencer Short

[ill wind]

Jesse Lichtenstein

Toxic Assets

Sam Witt

Ambiguous Origins

Jack Boettcher

from Ay

Joan Houlihan—Web only

The State of Utah Is Shaped Like a Glove

Alina Gregorian

Some Novelties of Stagecraft

Matthew Gagnon

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Katy Lederer
Iris Cushing

2011 Poetry Contest Winner

Heather Tone
introduced by judge Tomaž Šalamun

The Bicameral Eyeball

John Ashbery

The Sound of It, Spring

Elizabeth Gramm

Commonplace and Commonplace

Rusty Morrison

The Spot

Joseph P. Wood

Poet’s Sampler

Corina Copp
Introduced by Dorothea Lasky
—Web only

Argument in Optative

Emily Wolahan

Villanelle on a Line from Macbeth

Michael Davis

The Harp and the Machine

Terese Svoboda

A Taxonomy of the Etiquette of Brandos

Eric Kocher

The Man from the Phone Company

J.T. Welsch

After Battle

Karen Lepri

Lottery

Anis Shivani

Soup Is One Form of Salt Water

Heather Christle

Used-To Lives On

C.J. Sage

Poet’s Sampler

Lauren Jensen
Introduced by Erika Meitner

Of Late Fashion

Scott Provence

Marjorie Perloff discusses literary criticism with Society for Critical Exchange. Read her essay “Poetry on the Brink” from the May/June 2012 issue.

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National Poetry Month 2012

A special package of poems, reviews, and criticism in celebration of verse!

Also see: National Poetry Month 2011.

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Essays

Natural Experiments

Peter Gizzi’s Threshold Songs
Christopher Schmidt

Poetry and the Public Sphere

Addressing “When That Becomes This”
Charles Bernstein, Susan Stewart, Marjorie Perloff, Katie Peterson, Stephen Burt, and David Micah Greenberg

The Suffering World

Poets Grieve
Katie Peterson

All Together Now

How Description Fosters Connection
Siobhan Phillips

Odd One Out

An Interview with Joan Houlihan
Sawnie Morris—Web only

Poetry Fights Back

How Pashtun poetry challenges the Taliban mindset
Shaheen Buneri

Cold Gem

William Fuller’s Hallucination
Cal Bedient

Each Passing Thought

Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
William Montgomery

Gone Missing

Geoffrey O’Brien’s “Metropole”
David Gorin

The Escape Artist

John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud’s Illuminations
Robert Huddleston

In from the Cold

The friendship of poets-in-exile Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky
Alissa Valles

When That Becomes This

What right-wing politicos and leftist poets have in common.
David Micah Greenberg

Out of Reach

Susan Howe’s That This
Richard Deming

In the Details

Allan Peterson’s As Much As
Stephen Burt

(Most) Everyone’s Invited

Roddy Lumsden’s Identity Parade
Dai George

Floating World

Maureen N. McLane’s Same Life and World Enough
Tess Taylor

Hello Kitty

Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg’s Gurlesque
B.K. Fischer

Synecdoche

Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City
Megan Levad

Our Poems, Ourselves

Erika Meitner’s Ideal Cities and John Beer’s The Waste Land and Other Poems
Stephen Burt

The Side Of Love

Dan Chiasson’s Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon
Piotr Florczyk

Microreviews

March/April 2012
November/December 2011
September/October 2011
July/August 2011
May/June 2011